International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Sep 3, 2018
To transform a space into a better livable and sustainable zone, United Nations Summit in New Yor... more To transform a space into a better livable and sustainable zone, United Nations Summit in New York 2015, has decided upon 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) that approach directly to achieve inclusive, people-centric, sustainable developments. Though sustainability has been majorly constructed by four pillars, namely, Ecological, Economic, Social and Cultural, but it is essentially reduced to economic and ecological consideration in the context of developing countries. Therefore, in most cases planning has reduced its ambit to concentrate around the tangible infrastructure, ignoring the fundamentals of socio-cultural heritage. With the accentuating hype of infrastructural augmentation, lack of emphasis of traditional concerns like ethnicity and social connection have further diluted the situation, disintegrating cultural continuity. As cultural continuity lacks its cohesion, it's growing absence increasingly acts as a catalyst to degrade the heritage structures, spaces around and linking these structures, and the ability of stakeholders in identifying themselves rooted in that particular space. Hence, this paper will argue that sustainability depends on the people and their interaction with their surroundings, their culture and livelihood. The interaction between people and their surroundings strengthen community building and social interaction that abides by stakeholders reverting back to their roots. To assess the socio-cultural sustainability of the city of Kolkata, two study areas are selected, namely, an old settlement from the northern part of the city of Kolkata (KMA), imbued with social connection, age-old cultural and ethnic bonding and, another cluster of new high-rises coming up in the Newtown area having portions of planned city extension on the eastern side of the city itself. Whereas, Newtown prioritizes the surging post-industrial trends of economic aspiration and ecological aspects of urban sustainability; the former settlements of northern Kolkata still continue to represent the earliest com [...]
The paper depicts a systematic procedure using pitch tracking and pitch smoothing methods-based s... more The paper depicts a systematic procedure using pitch tracking and pitch smoothing methods-based statistical approach for exploring the singers’ melody of voice for a set of songs of poet Rabindranath Tagore sung by different renowned singers. The medium category (Mudara) of songs started with vowel ‘aa’ has been incorporated in the data set of songs. Index of melody has been estimated numerically based on semitones of different singers for a particular duration of the first vocal phrase. The value of probability of significance calculated by one-way ANOVA has been considered for the comparative study of the index of melody of the singers of particular song, and the results show the significant difference among the singers of same song of Tagore.
The paper presents a systematic procedure using cepstrum and linear predictive coding (LPC) based... more The paper presents a systematic procedure using cepstrum and linear predictive coding (LPC) based statistical approach for exploring the singers rendition for a set of song of poet Rabindra Nath Tagore sung by different renowned singers. The medium category (Mudara) of songs started with vowel ‘aa’ has been incorporated in the data set of song. Index of perceived vocal qualities like flow phonation, depth, vowel quality and timbre have been estimated numerically based on cepstral and LPC coefficients. The value of probability of significance calculated by ANOVA has been considered for the comparative study of flow phonation, depth, vowel quality and timbre of the singers and the results show the significant difference among the singers of same song of Tagore.
The alluvial plains of the Ganges River system are known to hold one of the best aquifer systems ... more The alluvial plains of the Ganges River system are known to hold one of the best aquifer systems in the world. The unique depositional pattern of the varied fluvial geomorphic features, e.g., channels versus floodplains, controls the disposition of varied lithology within the sediment assemblage, which in turn lays down the foundation for the aquifer-aquitard architecture within the Ganges basin. Hence, geomorphology is often used as a primary tool to understand the aquifer architecture that lies beneath at a shallow level. This article is aimed at establishing the effectiveness of using the fluvial geomorphic signatures to understand the shallow aquifer architecture of central Gangetic basin. The central Gangetic basin is mostly clay capped thus depicting a confined shallow aquifer, but a number of paleolake have been encountered at places due to migration of river through time. This area also exhibits dominance of active or abandoned channels, meander scrolls and point bars, with ...
International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Sep 3, 2018
To transform a space into a better livable and sustainable zone, United Nations Summit in New Yor... more To transform a space into a better livable and sustainable zone, United Nations Summit in New York 2015, has decided upon 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) that approach directly to achieve inclusive, people-centric, sustainable developments. Though sustainability has been majorly constructed by four pillars, namely, Ecological, Economic, Social and Cultural, but it is essentially reduced to economic and ecological consideration in the context of developing countries. Therefore, in most cases planning has reduced its ambit to concentrate around the tangible infrastructure, ignoring the fundamentals of socio-cultural heritage. With the accentuating hype of infrastructural augmentation, lack of emphasis of traditional concerns like ethnicity and social connection have further diluted the situation, disintegrating cultural continuity. As cultural continuity lacks its cohesion, it's growing absence increasingly acts as a catalyst to degrade the heritage structures, spaces around and linking these structures, and the ability of stakeholders in identifying themselves rooted in that particular space. Hence, this paper will argue that sustainability depends on the people and their interaction with their surroundings, their culture and livelihood. The interaction between people and their surroundings strengthen community building and social interaction that abides by stakeholders reverting back to their roots. To assess the socio-cultural sustainability of the city of Kolkata, two study areas are selected, namely, an old settlement from the northern part of the city of Kolkata (KMA), imbued with social connection, age-old cultural and ethnic bonding and, another cluster of new high-rises coming up in the Newtown area having portions of planned city extension on the eastern side of the city itself. Whereas, Newtown prioritizes the surging post-industrial trends of economic aspiration and ecological aspects of urban sustainability; the former settlements of northern Kolkata still continue to represent the earliest com [...]
The paper depicts a systematic procedure using pitch tracking and pitch smoothing methods-based s... more The paper depicts a systematic procedure using pitch tracking and pitch smoothing methods-based statistical approach for exploring the singers’ melody of voice for a set of songs of poet Rabindranath Tagore sung by different renowned singers. The medium category (Mudara) of songs started with vowel ‘aa’ has been incorporated in the data set of songs. Index of melody has been estimated numerically based on semitones of different singers for a particular duration of the first vocal phrase. The value of probability of significance calculated by one-way ANOVA has been considered for the comparative study of the index of melody of the singers of particular song, and the results show the significant difference among the singers of same song of Tagore.
The paper presents a systematic procedure using cepstrum and linear predictive coding (LPC) based... more The paper presents a systematic procedure using cepstrum and linear predictive coding (LPC) based statistical approach for exploring the singers rendition for a set of song of poet Rabindra Nath Tagore sung by different renowned singers. The medium category (Mudara) of songs started with vowel ‘aa’ has been incorporated in the data set of song. Index of perceived vocal qualities like flow phonation, depth, vowel quality and timbre have been estimated numerically based on cepstral and LPC coefficients. The value of probability of significance calculated by ANOVA has been considered for the comparative study of flow phonation, depth, vowel quality and timbre of the singers and the results show the significant difference among the singers of same song of Tagore.
The alluvial plains of the Ganges River system are known to hold one of the best aquifer systems ... more The alluvial plains of the Ganges River system are known to hold one of the best aquifer systems in the world. The unique depositional pattern of the varied fluvial geomorphic features, e.g., channels versus floodplains, controls the disposition of varied lithology within the sediment assemblage, which in turn lays down the foundation for the aquifer-aquitard architecture within the Ganges basin. Hence, geomorphology is often used as a primary tool to understand the aquifer architecture that lies beneath at a shallow level. This article is aimed at establishing the effectiveness of using the fluvial geomorphic signatures to understand the shallow aquifer architecture of central Gangetic basin. The central Gangetic basin is mostly clay capped thus depicting a confined shallow aquifer, but a number of paleolake have been encountered at places due to migration of river through time. This area also exhibits dominance of active or abandoned channels, meander scrolls and point bars, with ...
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